In a merger of two ink companies that came from family roots, Wikoff Color has acquired Braden Sutphin Ink Co.With an estimated $190 million in sales in 2017, Wikoff Color is the sixth-largest ink manufacturer in North America, according to Ink World Magazine’s annual North American Top Companies Report. The company, which is now employee-owned, dates back to 1956; it is a specialist in a wide range of packaging, commercial and inkjet inks. Wikoff Color has 27 manufacturing plants and more than 500 employees, and is headquartered in Fort Mill, SC.

Braden Sutphin has been a North American printing ink industry leader for more than a century, dating back to its launch in 1913 by Jim Braden. Al Sutphin, the company’s first employee, acquired 100% ownership of the company in the 1930s, and Braden Sutphin had remained in the family since. Headquartered in

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